[Blade Raider]

-The U.S.S. Flounder. This is actually a toy my brother had left over from childhood. I can't rememory how this made it into the comic, but I believe it was just us joking around.

-I like to think my water effects got better, but I do kind of miss just how cartoony this looks.

-Jack Sparrow. This was before even the hardcore fans were sick of Pirates of the Caribbean. I mainly put him in here for practice at writing characters with a different way of speaking.

-Yep, Leader-1 wants Aaron Archer. That is the plot.

-Now for one of my favorites: the Pretty Tree disguise. I frankly love everything about this scene. It has exposition, it has this laughably bad disguise that would fool no one fooling everyone, and Spay-C with doofy lines. But enough of tooting my own horn, I still just really like how this scene turned out.

-W. is singing (bad) parody lyrics for the Touch.

-Suddenly giant monster. They are quite common in the ocean between DC and New York...Can you tell I was paying no mind to geography when I wrote this?

-Hey, the first anime attack! More on that next time. Also, Star the Wanderer shows up. Like my brother, I used a figure I happened to have at the time. This one stuck for the longest time, though I did later change to the black version later. Like Archangel, he has a different toy used in ATTF#1 and once TAOWAR is over, if/when he appears he'll be using that toy.

Tomorrow: The Safehouse, even more new characters, and a muppet!